The first of many post about Florida

So being crazy,  I get this idea in my head that this would be a great time to take a family trip to Florida to introduce the kids to Disney World.  Up to now, Ella believed she had been to Disneyland because she had been to Disney on Ice (not a bad delusion to keep in a little girl's head). My pregnancy brain was thinking that age 5 would be the most magical time for her to visit, and knowing if we did not NOW we would not make it for at least three more years.  Who would want to take a baby to Disney? Not me! My Aunt and Uncle have a very lovely home right by the parks and it just happened to be free the middle of July....in Florida...Hot...Humid! Perfect! We had a enough points for free air fair, we where going!

We did not tell the kids we were going until two days before.  Ella had asked me about a month before if I knew where Cinderella's Castle was and if we could find it.  Perfect! I told her I would do some research and get back to her. To tell them about the trip we told them we had found the castle and we where going to go see it.  We also showed them a big, colorful map of Disney World.  I don't know if they really understood what they were in for, well I know they did not fully grasp what we were doing.  They were VERY excited about the plane ride they were about to take and a little excited about going to see "The Castle" (in Coop's words).

We surprised them with new backpacks full of fun stuff to do on the flight. Oh the excitement!

The saving grace was movies on the Kindle! These headphones and the Kindle Fire, priceless!

This is Cooper finally falling asleep as we were landing in Denver.  He chose the last 10 minutes to take a nap...in true Coop fashion.  He didn't even wake up when the plane bounced on landing!

We spent about 30 minutes in Denver and loaded the next plane to Orlando.  We arived at 12am, Florida time, and by the time we got our luggage, picked up the rental car and found the house it was about 1:30 a.m. These two were troopers!